descend
verb (used without object)
to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down.
am descending
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present progressiveof descend (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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No-one knows how the lionfish came to be in the Caribbean waters I am descending the vertical coral wall at Bloody Bay Marine Park.
From BBC ● May 7, 2011
The walls are made of stone, and the ceiling slopes, so I feel like I am descending deep into the heart of the earth.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
But I am descending into trivialities, and the Rock is not trivial by any means.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
It appears to me that I am descending by an infinite spiral line, a deep and dark mine.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
Thirty miles over hill and dale, after leaving the little hamlet, and behold, the city of Beerjand appears before me but a mile or thereabouts away, at the foot of the hills I am descending.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
